Shareholders want Gopal at winding-up proceeding

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KUCHING: Company shareholders who are also siblings facing a winding up petition in July have applied for a retired Federal Court judge Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram to be present during the proceeding at a High Court here.

Gopal therefore has applied, through a team of legal counsels, for an ad-hoc licence to allow him to appear at the proceeding (winding up petition) of the cases scheduled for this
Monday.

The legal team (consisting ofShankar Ram Asnani, Collin Lau, Andy Tan and Yong Sie Mee) also made an application to the Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Tan Sri Panglima Richard Malanjum to recuse a High Court judge Datuk Rhodzariah Bujang from hearing the case.

It is learnt that there will be a conflict of interest because the civil suits which consists of 10 cases are being heard in the High Court here. She presides over one of the civil suits.

Under the Advocate Ordinance, application for an ad-hoc licence for non-Sarawakian lawyers to practise in the state has to be heard before the Chief Justice of Sabah and Sarawak who is Tan Sri Panglima Richard Malanjum.

The court yesterday said the matter would be referred to Malanjum and all the parties would be notified.

Lawyers Liew Tang Chieh and Saha Thevan from Advocates’ Association of Sarawak and Dayang Jamilah Salahuddin from State Attorney General’s office were also present at the court yesterday.